If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Do whatever you do intensely.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

Just as the light of a candle has the power to dispel darkness in a room, so also the light developed in one man can help dispel darkness in several others.

Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

I am now at the age where I can withdraw a 25 per cent tax-free lump sum. I do not put in a set amount because my earnings are a moveable feast.

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

In America, we have the greatest businesspeople in the world. We have to use them to negotiate our trade deals.

The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.

The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes — saving.